Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences

The INWA Grid project connects grid resources in EPCC (Edinburgh, Scotland), Curtin Business School (Perth, Western Australia) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). The project has demonstrated the application of grid computing power to the analysis of distributed data drawn from col...

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Main Authors: Lloyd, Ashley, Sun, Yuchao
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42545
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description The INWA Grid project connects grid resources in EPCC (Edinburgh, Scotland), Curtin Business School (Perth, Western Australia) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). The project has demonstrated the application of grid computing power to the analysis of distributed data drawn from collaborating companies in each time zone. This data describes regional behaviour within the "e" economy and provides a focus for global eSocial Science collaborations. The infrastructure supporting these interactions however is designed for eScience collaborations and hence differences with the models for global collaborative research within the social sciences, as well as regional differences in access to this infrastructure by the social science community, determine the immediate extent to which global grid technologies can support global eSocial Science. We explore this issue in an examination of the recent evolution of eScience/Grid infrastructure in China as well as broader measures relating to Internet access within China. We observe that some divergence in the uptake of access technologies is already evident within China with potential consequences for future modalities of collaborative social science research in this region.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-425452017-02-27T15:15:07Z Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lloyd, Ashley Sun, Yuchao Grid computing eSocial Science eScience The INWA Grid project connects grid resources in EPCC (Edinburgh, Scotland), Curtin Business School (Perth, Western Australia) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). The project has demonstrated the application of grid computing power to the analysis of distributed data drawn from collaborating companies in each time zone. This data describes regional behaviour within the "e" economy and provides a focus for global eSocial Science collaborations. The infrastructure supporting these interactions however is designed for eScience collaborations and hence differences with the models for global collaborative research within the social sciences, as well as regional differences in access to this infrastructure by the social science community, determine the immediate extent to which global grid technologies can support global eSocial Science. We explore this issue in an examination of the recent evolution of eScience/Grid infrastructure in China as well as broader measures relating to Internet access within China. We observe that some divergence in the uptake of access technologies is already evident within China with potential consequences for future modalities of collaborative social science research in this region. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42545 ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science restricted
spellingShingle Grid computing
eSocial Science
eScience
Lloyd, Ashley
Sun, Yuchao
Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title_full Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title_fullStr Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title_full_unstemmed Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title_short Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences
title_sort linking e-science capabilities for e-social science communities: extending the uk-australia inwa project to the chinese academy of sciences
topic Grid computing
eSocial Science
eScience
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42545